What happened: I was the 7th miner on icyhash's ClockCoin pool, holding the number 1 hashrate for a short period of time. The pool was paying out incorrectly (50 coins/block instead of 60). spork asked for all those affected to pm. I did, twice, and received no response (50 Clock owed). He did respond to me in clockcoin thread saying he 'must not have gotten my pm' which triggered the second PM.
Giving the benefit of the doubt, I again mined on icyhash for the coinye launch (of the 5 pools I pre-programmed, it was the only one functioning at launch time). I had to leave the house, there was no time to decrypt the wallet and setup auto-payout. I was mining from within 10 minutes of launch, and there were many reports of miners on this site receiving significantly fewer coins than other pools, for no obvious reason, longer than usual blocks, incorrect payouts, etc.
The next morning the pool goes offline due to supposed DDOS. Pool owner gets very upset and agitated, first states he will only give out coins if the DDOSer comes forward, lashes out at community several times, and then decides to threaten everyone to format his server and delete everyone's coins. Incredibly immature behavior all around.
Pool owner recants, and states he will pay everyone who PM's him within 24 hrs. Isolated reports come in of both 'i got paid' and 'i still didn't get paid.' I sent a PM with the IP address, username, and wallet address as requested. no response. After 24 hours, I send a second PM with all the information, still no response. I call him out in the thread, more than once, no response.
The next day he begins advertising that his pool is now open again, and with DDOS protection. He spams this several times throughout the forum. I start complaining rather loudly in the coinye thread in response, and he replies with 'just send me a pm' (I've already sent 4 over the last 7 days).
I've logged into my account at icyhash for coinye and the balance is 0, when it should be somewhere in the 500K-1million range (still a fraction of what miners at other pools got). The owner refuses to respond in any way to my PMs or public thread call-outs. It was suggested that I post the ordeal here. Thanks for your time, and please be careful out there.
Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=211810Reference Link: Please see my last 12 posts on this forum, and screenshot of PMs below:
Amount Scammed: 50 Clockcoins, and ~500K-1million CLKcoins (exact amount unknown)
Payment Method: Mining on this dude's pool. CLK and COYE
Proof of Payment: See my last 12 posts on this forum, and screenshots of unanswered PMs below:
PM/Chat Logs: https://i.imgur.com/HFKrMwF.pngAdditional Notes: This person has lashed out at the community several times for activities such as DDOS which are clearly outside of anyone's control. After many profanity laced insults (coinye thread), he threatened to delete everyone's coins off his server. There is an awful lot about this situation that isn't right, I've seen other posts of 'where's my coins?' and i hope those individuals come here to share their stories as well. In the meantime, this guy has been running around all day still spamming his pool, and even doing coin giveaways, etc. Please use extreme caution when dealing with this individual.
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Have been lurking for the last 2 weeks, reading and applying everything I can. Would appreciate posting privs sooner than later if possible, as I'm not interested in making frivolous posts that contribute little.
